1723 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

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This said George Wrenn or Dr. Wrenn being the brother of Jimmie Wrenn, - said Jimmie Wrenn being the man who has been assisting C.W.Burke, - said C.W.Burke being a witness signing the affidavit of C.Burtis Dalton in Florida and the notary public purporting to attest what purports to be an affidavit from an old negro woman by the name of Mary Rich."

Dan M. Goodlin, Jr. testifies by affidavit in substance as follows:

"On Tuesday the 28th of April, 1914, I went in company with Charles Sigglea, whom I had arrested on a warrant from the Municipal Court of Atlanta, to the vicinity of Butler street and Fraser street. We went there to look for a man who had agreed to go on Sigglea' bond. We found the man we were looking for and all three of us stepped into a blacksmith's shop to fix up the bond. Just as I came out I saw a young negro boy by the nickname of 'Peavine', - and he said 'You scared me; I thought you was comin' after me.' And then I said 'Where do you live?' He pointed to where he lived. I then said 'Well, I'll know where to come when I want you.' George Wrenn had been standing nearby, in front of Peavine's house. Just then he came up to me and asked me something about how the sheriff's case was coming. About that time Bass Rosser walked up. There was no conversation at all between myself and George Wrenn or Peavine about the Frank case or anything connected with it. We just had a few casual words conversation."

George W. Epps, Jr. testifies by affidavit in substance as follows:

"I am the George Epps who testified in the trial of the case of the State of Georgia vs Leo M. Frank. Since signing an affidavit this morning with reference to what occurred in Birmingham, Ala., I have seen on the street the man who took me from Atlanta, Ga. to Birmingham, and who passed with me under the name of Terry. I picked him out on the street at a bootblack stand near the corner of Hunter and South Pryor Streets. I spoke to him and he spoke to me. I called him 'Mr. Terry.' I am positive that he is the man. I never knew him under any other name except the name Terry. Mr. M. A. Gerner was with me at the time I saw him and addressed the man as Jimmie Wrenn, and Terry asked:

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